Hand-stamp.



C. HANSEN.

HAND STAMP H0 MODEL.

PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN HANSEN, OF CHICAGQ.ILLINOIS.`

HAND-STAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,551, dated J' une 30, 1903. Application filed September 2, 1902. Serial No. 121,806. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- y

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN HANSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to Inake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to hand-stamps, and is particularlydesigned as a marking-machine for impressing letters and iigures on signs, tags, and the like.

Speaking generally it embodies a carriage which moves automatically over the surface to be printed and supports atype-wheel,

. wheel. The latter bevelawheel is fixed to the which is carried by a swinging frame so that the type-wheel may be properly positioned with respect to the letter or character to be printed and then pressed down by a handle to contact with the impression-surface.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the device, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a top plan view.

Referring speciiically to the drawings, the carriage is indicated at 6,mounted on wheels 7..

The type-Wheel is indicated at 8, having the alphabet and such other characters as may be desired around its rim. 'This wheel is rotatable and its shaft 8 is journaled in bearings formed in a rocking frame, indicated at 9, said frame being pivoted at 9 to the top of a standard 10.

The handle is indicated at 11, rotatably mounted on a spindle projecting vertically from the frame 9. This handle carries a disk l2, bearing characters corresponding to the characters on the type-wheel. The handle also carries a bevel-gear 11n in mesh with a bevelgear 8b on the shaft S of the typeshaft by a setscrewS, whereby the wheels may be so arranged that a certain letter on the type-wheel will be brought to the printing position when the same letter on the disk recess 22n cut therein.

reaches a certain fixed point, such as a pin .13. The type-wheel is normally raised from the surface, being printed by the tension of acoiled spring 9b.

The inking-roller is indicated at 14 and is carried by a bracket 14, pivoted to the carriage. The spring 14 serves to retain the inking-roller in contact with the type-Wheel.

16 indicates a spring-pallet which is carried by the rocking frame and reciprocates vertically when the frame is rocked. This pallet engages and communicates motion to a rachetwheel'17 secured to one of the carriage-wheels 7. The carriage is thus caused to move along the surface, being printed at the time the type-Wheel lifts. The ratchet-Wheel is so proportioned that the space the carriage moves has proper relation to the width of the vtypeface on the type-wheel. 18 indicates a springpawl supported by a bracket 18, which prevents backward motion of the ratchet.

' On the back of the type-wheel are a series of studs Se, corresponding to the characters on the rim thereof. These studs guide the particular letter desired to be printed to the exact position required to give a good impression by entering a notch 20, formed in a plate 20, secured to the front edge of the carriage. By means of this construction if the disk on the handle should not be set exactly to the right point the type-wheel will nevertheless,

when it is depressed, ind its exact and proper printing position by entering the appropriate stud into the said notch.

Under the type-wheel, attached .to the bottom of the carriage, is a plate 22, having a This recess is of sufiicient size to allow one character tov print therethrough, and the adjacent parts of the plate serve to prevent the other letters from coming in contact with the surface being printed.

In operation the stamp is placed on the surface to be printed andl properly located for the first character, the handle being revolved to bring the character desired beside the pin 13, which brings the corresponding character on the type-Wheel to the lowest point on the wheel. Downward pressure on the handle then rocks the frame and brings the said character against the surface being printed. The pressure on the handle being released, theV IOO spring 9 lifts the type-Wheel and in the lifting motion the pawl engages the ratchet Wheel, which turns the Wheel '7, carrying the carriage forward the proper distance for the impression of the next character.

Vhat I claim as new is- The combination With a Wheeled carriage having a standard thereon, of a rocking frame pivoted at the top of the standard to rockin a plane parallel to the direction of movement of the carriage and having a supporting-spring connected to the carriage on one side of the pivot, a type-wheel having printing characters on its rim, supported on a horizontal spindle journaled in the frame on the other side of 

